Flourish bejasus!

Booking fast folks! Calling scribblers, stooges, pencil pushers, funambulists, fantasists, wordsmiths and angry feckers….Come act the maggot with us! Rage against the thingamabob. Creative writing or acting? Choose your medium to play.

Introducing new Thursday morning class in creative writing: Feb 21 at Ranealgh Arts Centre. Details of current available classes below.

BEGINNERS ACTING: Thursdays starting Feb 28, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9.30pm)
Only few spots left – so guys, come on and join us for the craic! Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, Dublin

BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Tuesdays starting March 5, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9pm) Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.

NEW Morning Course in Ranelagh, Dublin 6
BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Thursdays starting Feb 21 – 6 weeks (10am-11.30am) Where: Ranelagh Arts Centre in Ranelagh village, Dublin 6

If you wish to book a spot on any of these courses, please email us saying which one you want and you can guarantee your place by paying a €40 deposit online here – http://actthemaggot.com/deposits/ Once you have paid your deposit the place will be yours and an orientation email will follow. Remainder of course fee to be paid at first class.

HOW TO BOOK: 0873744926 actthemaggot@gmail.com All courses €140. Book now. Early Birds act the maggot!

How to get to Kaplan College: (come down Parliament Street facing the river, take left at Turk’s Head, take right down lane way at the Czech Inn and No. 7 is the big green Georgian door up the steps on your left before Smock Alley Theatre
How to get to Ranelagh Arts Centre: (cross the street from Ranelagh Luas stop it is sandwiched between Nick’s Coffee & Superquinn. Painted baby blue, you can’t miss it.

Thurs morn Beginners Creative Writing in Ranelagh

Calling all pensive pensioners, busy mums, part-time workers, lads and ladies of leisure – young & old – we like everyone! Join us on Thursday mornings and tap into your creativity in this fun writing class like no other in Dublin!
NEW DAYTIME COURSE in RANELAGH DUBLIN 6
Come a long and act the maggot with us in the lovely Ranelagh Arts Centre
If you like your class mates you can even have coffee with them after in Nick’s next door!

Thursday mornings starting Feb 21 – 6 weeks (10am-11.30am) €140
Where: Ranelagh Arts Centre in Ranelagh village, Dublin 6:
across the street from Ranelagh Luas stop & beside Superquinn & Nick’s Coffee.

Flourish in 2013 with Act The Maggot. A fun New Year’s Resolution!
Roll up. Roll up: New Beginners Writing Course
BOOK NOW. Early birds act the maggot!
actthemaggot@gmail.com or call 0873744926

Next City Centre & Ranelagh courses booking now!

IMPROVERS ACTING: Wednesdays starting Jan 23, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9.30pm)
Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar.
This class is for people who have done a little bit of drama/acting or improv
in the past and are not absolute beginners. There are still a few spots left –
so guys, come on and join us for the craic!

BEGINNERS ACTING: Thursdays starting Feb 28, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9.30pm)
Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar.
come down Parliament Street, take left at Turk’s Head, take right down lane way
at the Czech Inn and No. 7 is the big green Georgian door up the steps on your
left before Smock Alley Theatre

BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Tuesdays starting March 5, 2013 – 6 weeks. (7.30pm – 9pm)
Where: Kaplan College, Presbytery Building, 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, Dublin.
Come down Parliament Street, take left at Turk’s Head, take right down lane way
at the Czech Inn and No. 7 is the big green Georgian door up the steps on your
left before Smock Alley Theatre

Also NEW Morning Course in Ranelagh, Dublin 6
BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING: Thursdays starting Feb 21 – 6 weeks (10am-11.30am)
Where: Ranelagh Arts Centre in Ranelagh village, Dublin 6: across the street from
Ranelagh Luas stop & beside Superquinn & Nick’s Coffee.

If you wish to book a spot on any of these courses, please email us saying which one you want and you can guarantee your place by paying a €40 deposit online here – http://actthemaggot.com/deposits/ Once you have paid your deposit the place will be yours and an orientation email will follow. Remainder of course fee is to be paid in cash at first class.

All courses €140. BOOK TODAY. Early Birds act the maggot!

January 17 class full – Book now for Feb 28 class

Sorry folks our January course is completely full since last week. A lot of soon-to-be maggots mean business this new year! Bookings for the next course have already begun. Starts Feb 28. Avoid disappointment. Early birds act the maggot! Book today. There is always our Creative Writing course too – next available scribbling starts March 5, 2013. Book now for any 6-week course. actthemaggot@gmail.com or call 087 3744926

hAppY nEw yEaR from Act The Maggot

Quotes to ring in 2013

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
Wally Lamb, writer

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”
Goran Persson, politician

“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.”
Cyril Cusack, actor

Flourish in 2013 – Act The Maggot – G’wan!
www.actthemagot.com

Be the change you want to see

Flourish in 2013. Book Now!

Make Act The Maggot your New Year’s Resolution.
ACTING
PART ONE
Beginners Acting – 6 weeks – Thursday Jan 17-Feb 21 inclusive
Beginners Acting – 6 weeks – Thursday Feb 28-April 4 inclusive
Beginners Acting – 6 weeks – Thursday April 11-May 16 inclusive

PART TWO
Improvers Acting – 6 weeks – Wednesday Jan 23-Feb 27 inclusive
Improvers Acting – 6 weeks – Wednesday March 6-April 10 inclusive
Improvers Acting – 6 weeks – Wednesday April 17- May 22 inclusive

CREATIVE WRITING
PART ONE
Beginners Creative Writing – 6 weeks – Tuesday January 22-Feb 26 inclusive
Beginners Creative Writing – 6 weeks- Tuesday March 5-April 9 inclusive
Beginners Creative Writing – 6 weeks – Tuesday April 16-May 21 inclusive

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Gateway Members response to Act The Maggot

Great finish today at our course at Gateway Mental Health Project in Rathmines. We deserved those delicious mince pies!

Well done to all participants for attending, engaging and most of all for completing their Act The Maggot course!

Act The Maggot ran a light-hearted holistic course that combined positive living techniques with some elements of Forum Theatre to empower participants to reflect on areas of their lives and what changes they want to create for themselves.

Here is what some of the participant’s said about the course.

“This Act The Maggot course is a friendly, fun gathering. Makes us look forward to living again. I’d like to do this four times a year. I’m so sorry that it has ended. I wish I could be looking forward to another!”

“It was a relaxed setting where I got to know a really nice group of people and also learned stuff about myself.”

“It took me out of thinking inwardly and helped me look at the bigger picture.”

“We acted out scenarios. It gave me back my confidence and self esteem.”

“It made me realise the importance of physical exercise.”

“I have learned how to relax when I am stressed.”

“I enjoyed the sense of expressive freedom.”

“It got me thinking about all the possibilities.”

“Most of all, I enjoyed the role play of situations that actually happened in our lives. I would have preferred more time with this.”

“I enjoyed the variety of activities and not knowing what was coming next.”

“It was great to have somewhere to go each week to help take my mind off my problems.”

“The teacher made it. She put us at our ease with relaxation techniques and we had plenty of laugh and fun times.”

“I enjoyed the interaction and getting to know one another. I would have preferred more time with the meditations.”

“It was fun, yet I did get knowledge.”

“It was a fun and enjoyable introduction to learning through drama.”

Act The Maggot has been developing these specifically tailored courses to work with people who are taking small, positive steps towards minding their own mental health. Act The Maggot is very happy to be working with the staff and members of Gateway. Such a great bunch of people. Long may our relationship continue.

“The i in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we.”
Author unknown